Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of giving “aid and comfort” to Islamic terrorists Monday, declaring his anti-Muslim rhetoric helps the Islamic State group and other militants such as ISIS recruit new fighters.
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Jamil Smith says the craziness of the Trump’s birther two-step shows how eagerly conservatives will gaslight those they oppose, essentially driving them mad. Have you done it more than the two times the Post caught you at?
Meanwhile in the race for North Carolina’s United States Senate seat, Democratic challenger Deborah Ross has a four-point lead, 46/42, over Republican incumbent Richard Burr.
The Republican presidential nominee questioned whether Obama had been born in the U.S. – which he was – for years, including for years after Obama released his longform birth certificate in 2011.
Clinton leads 50 percent to 45 percent on the question of which candidate people expect will win, the Daybreak poll finds. “If those reluctant Republicans return to Trump and he continues to make inroads among other groups, then her lead could disappear”. Even after an August hiring spree, Trump has a far smaller shop of about 130 employees and more than 100 consultants. Four of the past five OH polls give Mr Trump a lead of at least three points.
Clinton, it seems, is preparing for the latter.
That could be New Hampshire, with four electoral votes, Colorado with nine, New Mexico with five, Pennsylvania with 20, MI with 16, Wisconsin or Minnesota each with 10 or Virginia with 13-all states that Trump has a shot in. But those states alone would leave her short of victory. Ted Cruz. “She’s trying to do more of the same”.
“Whites back Trump by a 31-point margin (58-27 percent), while blacks support Clinton by 82 points (85-3 percent)”, Blanton wrote for Fox News. In August, Rubio led by 13 points. “This should not be a close election, but it will be”.
Last week, headlines about the presidential race took a sharp turn away from policy and merit and toward the supposedly fluctuant health of the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
Though aides decline to detail debate preparations, Clinton has built a lot of downtime into her schedule for recent weeks.
The news has recently been unkind to Mrs Clinton. She then fell ill with pneumonia, and unwisely tried to hide the ailment, giving ammunition for two of Mr Trump’s attacks-that she is untrustworthy and that she is frail. The Clinton campaign has not revealed who her sparring partner is. These stumbles coincided with his gains. When did you change your mind about birtherism? “They’ve done an unbelievable job, as good as you can do”.
Donald Trump explains why he finally said President Obama was born in the U.S.
The call was supposed to be open to news media, but when reporters called in, they could not hear anything.
Trump has also tempered expectations by calling the debates “gamed”.
Hoping to calm some supporters’ concerns, Clinton’s campaign sent out a memo Monday, reminding them that the electoral map favors Democrats.
The Trump campaign’s biggest expense for the month was more than $11 million to Giles-Parscale for digital consulting and online advertising. Trump likes to go on offense, sometimes so eager that he ends up damaging his own cause, but Clinton gives Trump plenty of targets on which to focus.
Typically, presidential campaigns have someone play the part of the candidate’s opponent to prepare for the debates.
A Monmouth University poll in Florida shows Clinton leading Trump by five points.
The final argument in favour of Mrs Clinton’s chances is that polling averages tend to revert towards their means, and that Mr Trump is now bumping up against his previous ceiling of around 40% of the vote.
The Clinton campaign in recent days has launched a concerted effort to win over young voters. He even suggested that they should debate without a moderator, which would be interesting but potentially chaotic. But support for third parties tends to dwindle as elections draw near. Trump and Clinton are virtually tied when it comes to terrorism and homeland security (44% to 43%). That poll was conduct from September 18 to September 20 with a sample size of 734 likely voters and a margin of error of 3.5 percent, meaning Trump’s lead is more than a full percent outside the margin of error. However, rarely are candidates hounded to the same extent as Clinton. The main reason she is ahead is that Mr Trump is the first.
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The shift came mostly among Democrats and to a lesser extent among independents, the YouGov poll found.
